Many studies in international development demonstrate that foreign aid is not simply distributed according to the needs of developing countries. Bilateral Official Development Assistance allocation for example is often dictated by donor interests that are not directly connected to development. This paper uses regression analysis to identify the donor interests involved in bilateral aid distribu...

Developing countries have increasingly opened their economies to trade. Research about trade policy in developed countries focuses on a bottom-up process by identifying economic preferences of domestic groups. We know less about developing countries. We analyze how economic and political variables influenced Costa Rican voters in a referendum on CAFTA-DR, an international trade agreement. We fi...

Whereas “intelligence économique” was unknown in France up until the 1990s, it is now the subject of many scientific publications and professional courses. This article addresses the institutionalization of economic intelligence and its construction as a field of study over the last twenty years. It maintains that economic intelligence constitutes a discipline and that there is no geographical ...

The article takes a theoretically informed look at why policies favoring renewables (here wind power) are implemented in some countries rather than others, with empirical data from Norway and Denmark. The theory combines Joseph Schumpeter and Mancur Olson, emphasizing structural economic change as all-important to long-term economic growth, but that vested interests may easily hamper the growth...

As a feature of many chronic health problems, stigma contributes to a hidden burden of illness. Health-related stigma is typically characterized by social disqualification of individuals and populations who are identified with particular health problems. Another aspect is characterized by social disqualification targeting other features of a person's identity-such as ethnicity, sexual preferenc...

the emergence and unprecedented growth of joint stock companies is undoubtedly one of the most significant economic developments.one of the outcomes of this development is the separation of ownership and control of the companies. such separation make it possible for the managers of the companies to make dicisions to serve their interes at the expense of the companies shareholders .this conflict...

Jason Dedrick is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations , at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests include economic development, industrial policy, technology diffusion, and the globalization of the computer industry. He is the co-author of Asia’s Computer Challenge (Oxford, 1998). He may be reach...